I just wrote this, so please excuse me if it is a bit rough. I'll recheck in a few days, but i was so happy that i finally finished this.
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~Bayville Times, 4 ed.~
(or as i like to call it, Sentinel Attack)
Everybody report to the Danger Room, NOW! Even Remy, with his strong telepathic shields winced at such an exclamation from the professor. But, unlike them, he did not go to the DR. He quickly went outside, climbed up on the roof and confirmed his suspicions: They were here.
"X-men, we have known that this threat is coming for quite a while now" Xavier addressed his students, noticing the nervous ones, the determined ones and the absent ones. Colossus, Gambit and Pyro were not there. He was not surprised, the Acolytes had willingly come to stay at the mansion, but all of them were actually loners and used to being out on their own.
He had already talked to Jean and Rogue, if the Shi'ar were going to take a mutant, most probably they would take one of them. He wished it was not one of their own, but, then again, maybe if it was one of them, something could be done to stop them.
Jean and Rogue looked at each other from across the room. It was now or never. They had saved each other so many times and now, they had to see the other… not die, but, allow for her to be taken in order to save the rest of them. Jean wants for it to be her, because she knows how important it is to Rogue to be with her kids. Rogue wants it to be her, because she already knows that Jean would be missed much more than her, and she finds that she already completed her circle of life: grow, create life, then death.
"Let's go protect our kind" The professor finished his pep speech. Many still wore frightened faces, remembering how easily the sentinels outnumbered and defeated them last time. If only they knew the truth, that these sentinels are not only much stronger, but alien.
They slowly filed out of the DR. All suited up. Hank, Cyclops and Storm lead the group. Wolverine is at the back, making sure that everyone is following along, he will move to the front once they are in formation.
Remy watched and counted. Over thirty Sentinels, and there are only nineteen of them, not including himself.
"Remy have a bad feeling" he said to himself.
The first Sentinels were in attacking range. Far away attacks came first. There were five Sentinels walking, all quite close to each other. Amara went first, and a huge volcano erupted in front of them. Two were consumed by the inmediate lava and fire. And three others fell to the ground. As they tried to get up, the fire from the others spread towards them, and the malfunctioned quickly too.
But there were ten coming flying in at the same time. Bobby, Boom Boom and Sunspot worked together for that. First, Bobby targeted, then Boom Boom did. As far as the long range attacks went, it was good. Cyclops targeted one by himself, as did Spyke and Jean. They all tried their hardest. But they were really for when the first line failed. Storm hindered their advance by a strong rainfall and thunder on each of them. The bad thing is that doing so cancelled Sunspot's attack and made Bobby and Spyke lose their precision when shooting.
There were already seven sentinels down, make that ten. Remy went down and near to Rogue. She was saving her strength, but it was clear that she needed to help the offensive soon.
"Chère, you don' have to do dis" he whispered to her, leaning in much more than necessary.
"Yes, Ah do" she replied thickly. He did not agree, but he knew that this was it, arguing was pointless now. He went closer to Spyke and offered some help.
Soon enough, spikes were flying through the sky towards a Sentinel, and on impact it exploded, taking a Sentinel down on the first shot.
But apparently, not all of them, stayed down. Amara, who is the strongest on far away ground attacks, was paying close attention
"Hey, guys, not all of the ones on the ground are staying down…" she informed them as she stopped one with a large amount of sprouting Lava. Rogue noticed quickly, and knew that on this she could help. She shook the ground beneath them and they fell, not strongly enough for them to not get up again, but enough for Amara's attack to get more of them.
"Need help, sugah?" Rogue asked Amara as she held one hand up and helped her.
"That would be great" she said.
"Good, that's enough, I'm going in" Wolverine suddenly raised his hand and extended his claws. As soon as he started running towards the weakened earthbound Sentinels, the rest of the hand to hand combat followed. Nightcrawler went closer, bamfing around to find a weak spot. He worked with Amara for that, she created an arsenal of medium sized bombs, and he would come back for one whenever he found the right spot to target. Hank went too, getting punches and figuring where to hit and where not too.
But there had to be a first one down. Professor McCoy was too focused on one Sentinel that he did not see the hand of the nearby sentinel reach for him.
"NOO!" He screamed, managing to get the rest of their attention. A fist closed around him. But He was got back quickly, before the Sentinel could return with one. Jean opened the fist from far away, and before he hit the ground, Nightcrawler bamfed in and took him away. Spyke and Remy finished that one.
"Look up!" Cannonball suddenly interrupted and threw himself past them and upwards. Jean held the machine in place, and four people targeted it: Bobby and Rogue, plus Rahne jumping up towards it and Jean herself tried to displace its parts.
"Move!" Xavier called to them as Cannonball was coming in fast, and falling behind the Sentinel. They all scattered, Multiple Man carrying Hank inside.
"Girls, it is time!" Storm called to Jean and Rogue. The three of them ascended into the sky, and chose one Sentinel to take out for themselves.
Storm already counted, and knew that six was the lucky number, so she hit a Sentinel that was particularly nearby. Jean, on the other hand, tried to hold back the last seven Sentinels that were the ones the farthest away, allowing for that impediment to let the ground crew to target them. But, Rogue, she was in fight mode and went immediately towards three of them at the same time, quite ambitiously.
She froze half of one, the leg with the propulsion device, and meanwhile punched in iron form another one. The third one she flowered with apple sized Boom Boom bombs.
Rogue then turned with the one with the frozen limb and kinetically charged it through the ice. She threw herself away and landed harshly against the third one, pushing it with her feet and using its magnetic components against it as she pushed eastwards and towards the earth.
Remy watched astounded. There were only around eight Sentinels left. But that meant things were about to start failing too.
"I'm out of ice!" Bobby called. Rogue heard, that meant she was out of ice too.
"I think I am out too" Remy said, seeing that he had run out of cards.
"We have to keep it up!" Spyke said,
"It's either lightning or sun," Sunspot complained, so he was also out of the running.
Wolverine wiped sweat from his brow as he made sure that the last half active Sentinel on the ground was definitely down for the running. He looked up and saw the three girls flying around. Storm was targeting and Spyke was following her lead with the weakened Sentinels, making them faster. Kitty, Nightcrawler, Boom Boom and Rahne stood up too. Tiredly, but conscious.
"Well done, X-men" Xavier said, even though the battle was not quite over. There were still five Sentinels left. All of them in the sky. Storm hit one with a last lightning bolt, but then one turned on her and aimed towards her. A dart, a fist, a scan, and two minutes later the Sentinel unceremoniously dropped her.
As they were watching up, the unexpected happened. The lightning stopped, and they saw how Storm started to plummet downwards. Both Rogue and Jean looked towards her, not knowing what to do, but a bit too late.
Nightcrawler caught Storm, seconds before hitting the ground. She was safe, he bamfed as close as the mansion as he could.
"Kurt, help them!"
"Throw me!!"
"Look out!"
"NOO!"
"What do I do?"
"NOOO!!!"
"Chère!"
"Jean!"
They were both grabbed. That meant one thing, it was the deciding moment.
The three remaining Sentinels held tightly. Jean was crushed, and was quickly unconscious. Rogue quickly phased through and flew towards Jean, unsure of what to do now. She went back, evading the two trying to grab her again. She charged one head and went as far away as she could.
"Jean, NOO!!" Cyclops cried. Rogue looked back, and saw as the Sentinel was dropping her,
"Watch your back, Rogue!" A scream carried, she thought it was Wolverine, and she did, as Nightcrawler and Wolverine went to get Jean. That meant only one thing.
There were two sentinels left, and only her in the sky.
She dodged two hands and flew back towards the group.
"Rogue, do not go back!" she was ordered.
"Is Jean okay?" she panted.
"Yes!" Amara responded quickly, she and Kitty were tending to her, as was Scott. She looked at Scott, he looked at her and gave her an encouraging look. She looked at Scott.
I have to do this, otherwise more will come. The professor nodded to her and she flew up again.
"Chère!!" Remy called to her. I have to do this, Rems. Rogue went back to deal with the one Sentinel left, but as she went towards it with both her hands raised, two powers in her mind: metal and crystal. She could be indestructible.
She ripped the head right off, thinking of Magneto. It fell, destroyed, to the ground.
She allowed a smile to spread on her face. She went down to the ground, tired of flying. No sooner did she land that a hand grasped her shoulder.
"You should not have done that" he said to her.
"Yes, I should" she said.
"To prove what?" he said.
"Because we want them to leave, not?" she replied.
"Oui, mais…"
"Shh, Rems, it's over for today. Let's go rest" she said.
"Great job, team" Xavier addressed them all. Only four were left unconscious by the end of the battle: Hank, Storm, Boom Boom and Jean.
"I don't think they are coming back" Amara said dreamily.
"Let's hope so," Cyclops replied, carrying Jean in his arms.
"If they do come came, I hope its winter" Bobby complains. The ones with enough energy laugh at the joke.
Xavier rolled away from all of them, letting Cylops and Remy take over in the med lab where Hank had regained consciousness and was helping the other three.
He went towards Cerebro and scanned again. The activity was diminishing. The aliens were not inactive, but the brain activity and numbers were decreasing. He hoped that this was a good sign. He would have to check back in a few days.
"I do not need medical attention!" She said for the third time.
"Just allow me to make sure" Hank asked nicely. She rolled her eyes and sat on the examination table. He looked her over, touching her skin and looking for everything from scratches to broken bones with his doubly gloved hands. She sighed and let him.
"See, this is completely painless, chère" Remy interrupted. She grimaced and looked elsewhere.
"Okay, you are perfectly okay, you are free to go" Hank said. "I can't understand it though…" he starts off.
"It's the Logan in my blood" she replied.
"Oh, that makes sense"
"Right," she said, and started to walk towards her room.
Remy stayed down, helping the few that did get hurt in the hand to hand combat.
"I'll come by later, chère" he promised her as she left. She accepted and went towards her room.
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